Thursday, January 9, 2014

NEW CAMERA - PART DEUX

I wanted to show the sizes of the
cameras for comparison so I put the phone next to each.

Here we have the Kodak on the top and Sony on the bottom - no zoom.

And then with the zoom extended – Kodak
on top and Sony on bottom.

You can see the difference in size!

First the
camera battery was charged, lens cover and strap attached, tripod played with
and I began reading slowly through the manual.

I told you
there is nothing quick about me and electronics – I’m afraid I’ll mess up
something and not be able to fix it.
Whenever anyone hands me their iPhone to show me their photos, as soon
as it’s in my hand the pictures disappear!
My friend handed me her camera with 300+ photos of her daughter’s
wedding on it and – blink! – no photos appeared. Took her a few minutes to figure out
why. See - - - there is just something
about me and electronics that don’t go together!

Anyway, I
finally got the memory card in and began taking some photos. Just my desk, stuff outside the window, and
the cattle grazing across the lake – wow, great stuff, right? But I was just trying to see how it looked
and how difficult it is to use. It was
interesting to take the cattle photos – I took a progression of 5, from no zoom
to full zoom with each camera. Both took
good photos, but with the full zoom on the Sony you could make out the cow head
eating hay and full zoom on the Kodak was still in the range of whole cattle
rather than heads.

I’m already
slightly discombobulated going from one to the other – kind of like my husband
when he drives my stick shift versus his automatic!!! They have similarities in their knobs and
dials and buttons, but they are all in different places!

Next up is to
download the camera manual and photo program.
Have I mentioned that I’m also not very good at downloading stuff into
my computer and then actually finding it later??? Wish me luck!